Ancillary: Final Website Design

When I came to create my website I had no problems working out how to use the 'weebly' website and from what I remember it was a lot better and easier than the actual web authoring I had used previously. The website took me about 2 hours maximum to make which wasn't really long at all and I quite enjoyed using the website. I appropriately named the website 'www.jakebuggofficial.weebly.com'. Unfortunately though, as I hadn't paid to register the domain myself and was only using a free website the '.weebly' had to included within the domain name. This didn't bother me too much and if I actually came to create an official website to market an album I'd look into purchasing the domain name. I managed to include everything I wanted to and the website itself look very similar to the original plans. The link is -http://jakebuggofficial.weebly.com/.

Home/First page

This is the home page of the website. As you can see I included a picture of the artist as I previously said I wanted to before. I also used a still from my music video that I liked to break up the text in the 'About the Artist' section. I felt it was important to have the artist's biography on the homepage in order to try and drag the audience in and for them to get an idea of who and what Jake Bugg does, especially considering he's a fairly unknown and upcoming artist. It may not be very visible but in the top right corner of the website I included links to both his official Facebook and Twitter accounts. This would allow fans to keep up to date with information without having to visit the website on a regular basis. These links, as well as the banner picture and navigation bar remain on the screen for every page in the website whilst the information in the bottom half changes. 

Other pages on my website included a videos page, gallery, and contacts. 

Here is a screenshot of the Videos page. I inserted the embed code in so the YouTube videos would be viewable on the page. I included my video for Trouble Town as well as two of the other official music videos.  

This is the Gallery page. I added six images to begin with and would probably add more to the website as time went on for example the poster for the other ancillary piece. Two of the pictures were stills from the Trouble Town music video where as the rest were just from photo shoots with Jake Bugg. 

This is the Contacts page of the website. I inserted a form so fans of the artist could get in touch and send fan-mail or let Jake know what they think of the video. Any forms submitted get sent to an email address where we would then look into sending a reply. There is also a Useful Links page on the website which includes links to Bugg's YouTube, Facebook & Twitter.